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Robert Jeffress - Moving From Lust To Purity

July 25, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - Moving From Lust To Purity
Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Moving From Lust To Purity | July 25, 2025
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  • [announcer] from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • Of dallas, texas,
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  • This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i am robert jeffress
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Lust is like a deadly disease.
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  • No one can see it from the outside,
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  • But it fills the mind of its host like an invisible cancer.
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  • Before long, those thoughts take root in our lives
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  • And the victim succumbs to the painful consequences of sin.
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  • The truth is no one is immune from sexual temptation,
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  • So how can we avoid becoming its next victim?
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  • Well, today i'm going to share with you
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  • Three practical principles for overcoming impure thoughts.
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  • My message is titled, moving from lust to purity
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  • In our series invincible here on "pathway to victory."
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  • Dr. robert jeffress helps you overcome barriers
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  • Like guilt, loneliness, lust, grief, anxiety and more.
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  • A number of years ago,
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  • There was a funny television commercial you may remember.
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  • In the background was the music in the still of the night.
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  • And in this commercial there was a beautiful young woman
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  • Who was seated at the bar of a hotel.
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  • She was at the counter there in the hotel bar
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  • And she was looking over some business papers.
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  • When she glances down the counter
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  • And she sees this handsome man,
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  • And they lock eyes
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  • And the young man is sure
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  • That the woman is giving him "the look."
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  • And so he gets up and he goes over to her,
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  • And on his way out he drops the key to his hotel room.
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  • And she stays there for a few moments
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  • And she gets up and puts the leather jacket on,
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  • Which is the basis of the commercial,
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  • And she looks down the other end of the bar
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  • And she sees at the end of the counter
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  • This balding, middle-aged dumpy guy sitting there.
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  • She gets up and walks down and takes that hotel room key
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  • And drops it off to him.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • The next scene, those two men are in the elevator.
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  • The younger guy looks at the dumpy guy into his horror,
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  • Realizes he's holding the key to his hotel room.
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  • Well, it was a funny commercial,
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  • But the truth is,
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  • There's nothing funny about lust.
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  • As a pastor for more than 40 years,
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  • I've seen the destructive power of lust.
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  • I've seen how it destroys the lives of individuals,
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  • Of families, of entire churches.
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  • The problem of insatiable sexual desire
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  • Is hurting the witness of the church of jesus christ today.
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  • Just look in the news,
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  • In the last few months, we've had three major scandals,
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  • All involving sex:
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  • A world famous apologist
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  • Accused of the sexual abuse of women in a spa,
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  • The leader of a great christian school
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  • Accused of sexual debauchery that can't even be described,
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  • Christian leader, recently,
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  • Who's known for espousing family values,
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  • Guilty of child pornography,
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  • All ruining the witness of the lord jesus christ.
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  • Today we're going to talk about in our series invincible
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  • The problem of lust.
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  • Remember, in our series,
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  • We're talking about the 10 mountains,
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  • The obstacles that separate us from the blessed life
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  • That god wants us to experience.
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  • And today we're in the last message in this series
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  • And we're going to talk about the issue of lust,
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  • And i'm hesitant to talk about conquering lust
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  • Because the fact is,
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  • We can't, once and for all, conquer the problem of lust,
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  • But lust can, once and for all, conquer us
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  • If we're not careful.
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  • And so today we're going to talk
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  • About how to gain victory over lust
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  • By moving from lust to purity.
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  • Now we need to define terms, first of all.
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  • What do we mean when we talk about lust?
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  • This is going to surprise you,
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  • But in the bible,
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  • The greek word for lust is not necessarily evil,
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  • It's neutral.
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  • It all depends upon the context in which it's used.
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  • The greek word is "epithumia" and it's translated lust.
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  • Sometimes it's used in a positive way in the bible.
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  • In 1 timothy 3:1, for example,
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  • It's used in relationship to the office of the pastor.
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  • Paul says, "it is a trustworthy statement:
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  • If anyone aspires to the office of overseer,
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  • Pastor, leader of the church,
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  • It is a fine work he,"
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  • And there's the word, epithumia, "lusts to do."
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  • It's a good thing to lust, to crave,
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  • To desire to be a pastor.
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  • The point is,
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  • Craving something, wanting something is not wrong
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  • Unless it's outside god's prescribed boundaries.
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  • And that's what you see with this word lust in three.
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  • Yes, wanting to be in ministry,
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  • That's a good thing,
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  • But there are some limitations there.
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  • There are some boundaries.
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  • The same thing is true when it comes to sex.
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  • Mostly in the bible, the word epithumia, lust,
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  • Is used in relationship to sex.
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  • And let me give you this definition of lust.
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  • It's an insatiable desire for any sexual activity
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  • That is outside the will of god.
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  • Lust is an insatiable desire for any sexual activity
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  • Outside the will of god.
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  • What is sexual activity outside the will of god?
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  • Jesus answered that in matthew 19:4-6.
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  • Now, teenagers listen to this very carefully
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  • Because you're going to have this thrown at you in college
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  • Or wherever life might lead you.
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  • Jesus said to the pharisees,
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  • "have you not read that he who created them
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  • From the beginning
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  • Made them male and female."
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  • May i point out the obvious here?
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  • He said, "here is god's plan.
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  • One man with one woman
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  • In a lifetime relationship called marriage,
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  • And any sex outside of that misses the mark.
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  • It falls short of what i've planned for your good,
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  • Not evil, but for good."
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  • And that's why jesus doesn't mention every perversion
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  • That you could think of.
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  • We see that by the way, in matthew 5:28,
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  • Jesus said, "everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her
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  • Has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
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  • Sex is not wrong.
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  • The desire for it is not wrong
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  • Unless it's directed toward the wrong person.
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  • What role does lust,
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  • This craving for sex outside god's boundaries,
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  • How does it lead to sin?
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  • I want you to notice what james says about that.
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  • Turn over to james chapter 1 verses 13-16.
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  • James wrote in verse 13,
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  • "let no one say when he is tempted,
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  • 'i am being tempted by god.'
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  • For god cannot be tempted by evil,
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  • And he doesn't tempt anyone."
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  • Actually, some in the early church in jerusalem,
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  • On the verge of succumbing to sin,
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  • Were saying, "well, i guess god planned it.
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  • He is sovereign.
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  • I believe in the sovereignty of god.
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  • Maybe god is allowing me to fall into the sin."
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  • James says, "stop it.
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  • God has no role in your temptation whatsoever."
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  • And then in verse 14, he tells us how temptation occurs.
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  • He said, "but each one of us is tempted
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  • When we are carried away and enticed by his own lust.
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  • And then when lust has conceived,"
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  • Notice the sexual imagery there,
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  • "when lust has conceived,
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  • It gives birth to not life, but to sin.
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  • And when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death."
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  • Just as a sperm and an egg come together to produce life,
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  • There are two ingredients that come together to produce sin.
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  • And sin always results in death,
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  • Not just physical death,
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  • But the death of everything important to us:
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  • Relationships, dreams for the future.
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  • And then he adds,
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  • "do not be deceived, my beloved brethren."
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  • Now, let's go back to verse 14 for a moment,
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  • And let me give you this formula for sin
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  • In practical terms that james is talking about.
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  • What he's saying is,
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  • Corrupt desires plus the right bait
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  • Plus the wrong choice equals sin.
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  • He says in verse 14,
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  • "each one is tempted when he is carried away."
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  • He's talking about our corrupt desires, our lust.
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  • That word translated "carried away" is the greek word helko.
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  • It's the same word used in john 12:32 in which jesus said,
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  • "if i be lifted up, i will draw all men to myself."
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  • That's a drawing that's positive.
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  • But helko, it refers to to be drawn by an inward power.
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  • In this case it's by a wrong inward power.
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  • You see, to use computer terminology,
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  • Each one of us has an internal operating system
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  • Just like a computer does.
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  • We have an internal operating system
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  • That controls everything we do,
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  • But we've been infected with a virus
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  • In our internal operating system that's called sin.
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  • The sin virus has messed up our natural impulses
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  • So that now whenever god says yes to something,
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  • Our first impulse is to say no.
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  • And when god says no to something,
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  • Our first impulse is to say yes.
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  • And so we've got these inward lust,
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  • These cravings for things that are outside the will of god.
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  • So temptation begins with these corrupt desires,
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  • But that's not all.
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  • "each person is tempted when he's carried away and enticed."
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  • That's what bait refers to.
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  • In fact, the greek word enticed is a fisherman's term,
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  • It means to hook.
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  • Now folks, satan is the master fisherman.
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  • Can he read your mind?
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  • He doesn't have to.
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  • He's been watching you for a long time.
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  • He knows what appeals to you.
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  • He knows what times that you're particularly vulnerable
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  • And he knows what bait to drop in front of you
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  • At just the right time.
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  • For some people, the bait is sex.
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  • For other people, the bait is money.
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  • For other people, it's recognition.
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  • But he knows when you're weak,
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  • When you've been disappointed, when you've been hurt,
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  • And at just the right time,
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  • He's dropped that piece of a bait in front of you.
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  • Corrupt desires plus the right bait
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  • Plus the wrong choice equals sin.
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  • And sin, when it fully is accomplished,
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  • Brings forth death.
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  • You know, we see a great illustration
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  • Of the power of lust
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  • To destroy a person's life in the story of samson.
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  • Do you remember historian judges 13 through 16?
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  • Samson was literally as well as spiritually blinded
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  • By his own lust.
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  • Judges 13, israel was going through a difficult time.
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  • It was the time of the judges.
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  • It was a time they were being attacked
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  • By the ungodly pagan philistines.
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  • By the way, israel has always been under attack.
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  • Israel will continue to be under attack.
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  • Never forget that the enemies of israel
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  • Are the enemies of god himself.
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  • And it is imperative
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  • During this current conflict we're in right now
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  • That we see happening there,
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  • That we be on the right side of history
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  • And the right side of god
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  • And the right side of history
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  • And the right side of god is to be on israel's side.
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  • That land doesn't belong to the palestinians,
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  • It doesn't belong to them.
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  • They are usurpers of god's plan.
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  • God gave it to israel 4,000 years ago
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  • When he marked out the land for abraham,
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  • And one day they're going to possess that land forever.
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  • It doesn't cost you anything extra,
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  • I just threw that in.
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  • But it's true,
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  • And these days they were being persecuted by the philistines
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  • And god told a woman that she was going to be the mother
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  • Of the deliverer of israel.
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  • His name would be samson.
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  • He'd be dedicated to god,
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  • A nazarite who didn't drink strong wine,
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  • Didn't cut his hair and so forth.
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  • But when we see samson,
  • 00:14:05.167 --> 00:14:07.036
  • We find these words in chapter 14, verse 1.
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  • He went down to timnah.
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  • Now, timnah is not just a geographical location.
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  • Over and over in his life you see that phrase,
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  • "he went down, he went down."
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  • That is the older he got,
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  • The further he moved away from god.
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  • He went down to timnah.
  • 00:14:25.387 --> 00:14:26.989
  • And the first recorded words out of samson's mouth
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  • Were these words, "i saw a woman."
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  • "i saw a woman, and she looked good to me."
  • 00:14:34.296 --> 00:14:39.702
  • Literally, that word good is right.
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  • "she looked right to me."
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  • The only problem is,
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  • This woman may have been right in samson's eyes,
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  • But not in god's eyes.
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  • For she was a philistine, an unbeliever,
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  • And his parents begged samson not to take her as a wife.
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  • He said, "i want her.
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  • I know what i like and i want her and i want her now."
  • 00:15:00.389 --> 00:15:05.728
  • And so he married this philistine woman
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  • And she ended up being murdered.
  • 00:15:08.297 --> 00:15:10.065
  • You would think that would be enough
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  • To make him turn back to god.
  • 00:15:12.034 --> 00:15:13.469
  • No. then he went down to gaza,
  • 00:15:13.469 --> 00:15:16.271
  • And there he got involved with a prostitute.
  • 00:15:16.271 --> 00:15:19.141
  • And ultimately,
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  • He got involved with a third philistine woman
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  • Who brought him down, delilah.
  • 00:15:22.978 --> 00:15:24.980
  • She discovered the secret of his strength,
  • 00:15:24.980 --> 00:15:27.049
  • Cut his hair,
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  • And the spirit of the lord departed from him
  • 00:15:28.384 --> 00:15:30.386
  • And he didn't even realize it.
  • 00:15:30.386 --> 00:15:33.088
  • He ended up being captured by the philistines.
  • 00:15:33.088 --> 00:15:35.491
  • The first thing they did was to gouge his eyes out.
  • 00:15:35.491 --> 00:15:39.995
  • He could no longer see.
  • 00:15:40.496 --> 00:15:41.797
  • His eyes that had gotten him into so much trouble
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  • Were taken out of him,
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  • And he became a grinder at the mill in a philistine prison.
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  • All because of the destructive power of lust.
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  • I saw and i wanted.
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  • How can we gain victory over lust
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  • That everyone deals with in one way or another?
  • 00:16:02.651 --> 00:16:05.921
  • Let me share with you three practical principles
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  • For moving from lust to purity.
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  • Number one, write this down,
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  • Remember that no one is immune
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  • From the destructive power of lust.
  • 00:16:17.132 --> 00:16:20.502
  • No one is immune from the destructive power of lust.
  • 00:16:20.502 --> 00:16:24.840
  • And by the way,
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  • We often say that sex doesn't begin in the bedroom,
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  • It begins in the mind.
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  • That's not where it starts,
  • 00:16:31.380 --> 00:16:32.815
  • It starts with the eyes.
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  • That's how it gets into the mind to begin with.
  • 00:16:34.116 --> 00:16:38.387
  • And lust is always trying to get into your mind
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  • Through the television screen, it woos us.
  • 00:16:40.856 --> 00:16:43.459
  • Through the internet, it welcomes us.
  • 00:16:43.459 --> 00:16:45.227
  • Through magazines, it winks at us.
  • 00:16:45.227 --> 00:16:47.830
  • And that's why we've got to be very careful,
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  • Teenagers and all of us,
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  • What we allow ourselves to look at.
  • 00:16:51.467 --> 00:16:54.603
  • And job 31:1, job said,
  • 00:16:54.603 --> 00:16:57.539
  • "i have made a covenant with my eyes
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  • Not to look lustfully at a young woman."
  • 00:17:01.076 --> 00:17:05.581
  • It's okay to glance maybe once,
  • 00:17:06.215 --> 00:17:08.817
  • It's that second glance, that third glance,
  • 00:17:08.817 --> 00:17:12.354
  • That gaze of something that's wrong that leads to sin.
  • 00:17:12.354 --> 00:17:17.359
  • So that's why job said,
  • 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:18.527
  • "i've made a promise with my eyes,
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  • I'm not even going to look."
  • 00:17:20.062 --> 00:17:22.698
  • And that leads to a second principle.
  • 00:17:22.698 --> 00:17:26.001
  • Not only remember that nobody is immune from lust,
  • 00:17:26.001 --> 00:17:29.972
  • Secondly, replace lustful thoughts with god's thoughts.
  • 00:17:29.972 --> 00:17:35.177
  • You know, martin luther famously said,
  • 00:17:36.011 --> 00:17:37.412
  • "we can't keep the birds from flying over our heads,
  • 00:17:37.412 --> 00:17:40.616
  • But we can keep them from building a nest in our hair."
  • 00:17:40.616 --> 00:17:44.086
  • And that's the important thing to remember.
  • 00:17:44.953 --> 00:17:46.822
  • When a lustful thought comes into your mind,
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  • You may not be able to control
  • 00:17:48.957 --> 00:17:50.392
  • Whether it comes into your mind.
  • 00:17:50.392 --> 00:17:51.994
  • You do control what you do with that thought.
  • 00:17:51.994 --> 00:17:55.664
  • And the only hope for getting it out of your mind
  • 00:17:55.664 --> 00:17:58.667
  • Is to confront that thought with the truth of god's word.
  • 00:17:58.667 --> 00:18:02.771
  • That's why david said in psalm 119:9-11,
  • 00:18:02.771 --> 00:18:06.775
  • "how can a young man keep his way pure?"
  • 00:18:06.775 --> 00:18:09.545
  • Or young woman?
  • 00:18:09.545 --> 00:18:10.812
  • "by keeping it according to your word?
  • 00:18:10.812 --> 00:18:13.682
  • With all my heart i have sought you;
  • 00:18:13.682 --> 00:18:16.185
  • Do not let me wander from your commandments.
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  • Your word i've treasured in my heart,
  • 00:18:19.688 --> 00:18:22.224
  • That i may not sin against you."
  • 00:18:22.224 --> 00:18:26.461
  • When those thoughts come,
  • 00:18:26.461 --> 00:18:28.397
  • You don't have time to go look up a verse in the bible
  • 00:18:28.397 --> 00:18:31.867
  • And search through.
  • 00:18:31.867 --> 00:18:33.135
  • There's something in here somewhere, i know.
  • 00:18:33.135 --> 00:18:34.970
  • You need god's word right then
  • 00:18:34.970 --> 00:18:36.605
  • Just like jesus used it in the wilderness
  • 00:18:36.605 --> 00:18:39.041
  • To replace satan's thoughts with god's thoughts.
  • 00:18:39.041 --> 00:18:43.412
  • I ended up memorizing not just chapters
  • 00:18:43.412 --> 00:18:46.148
  • But entire books of the new testament
  • 00:18:46.148 --> 00:18:48.450
  • That still 40 plus years later come back to my mind.
  • 00:18:48.450 --> 00:18:53.121
  • Not just when i'm preaching,
  • 00:18:53.121 --> 00:18:54.656
  • But when i'm in a challenging situation.
  • 00:18:54.656 --> 00:18:57.426
  • The only way to dispel wrong thoughts
  • 00:18:57.426 --> 00:19:00.696
  • Is to replace them with the right thoughts
  • 00:19:00.696 --> 00:19:03.365
  • That come from god's word.
  • 00:19:03.365 --> 00:19:04.733
  • Let me mention a couple to all of you
  • 00:19:04.733 --> 00:19:07.002
  • That you might want to jot down and commit to memory.
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  • 1 corinthians 6:18-20, "flee immorality.
  • 00:19:11.807 --> 00:19:16.612
  • For every other sin that a man commits is outside the body,
  • 00:19:16.612 --> 00:19:21.450
  • But the immoral person sins against his own body.
  • 00:19:21.450 --> 00:19:25.087
  • Or do you not know
  • 00:19:25.087 --> 00:19:26.722
  • That your body is a temple of the holy spirit who is in you,
  • 00:19:26.722 --> 00:19:29.591
  • Whom you have from god, and that you are not your own?
  • 00:19:29.591 --> 00:19:33.095
  • For you have been bought with a price:
  • 00:19:33.095 --> 00:19:34.863
  • Therefore glorify god in your body."
  • 00:19:34.863 --> 00:19:38.667
  • Or here's a real simple one to memorize.
  • 00:19:38.667 --> 00:19:40.836
  • Galatians 6:7,
  • 00:19:40.836 --> 00:19:43.705
  • "do not be deceived, god will not be mocked;
  • 00:19:44.606 --> 00:19:49.278
  • Whatever a person sows, this shall he also reap."
  • 00:19:49.278 --> 00:19:54.616
  • Sin has consequences, don't be deceived.
  • 00:19:55.484 --> 00:19:59.187
  • Replace lustful thoughts with god's thoughts.
  • 00:19:59.187 --> 00:20:02.357
  • And the final principle, remember, replace,
  • 00:20:02.357 --> 00:20:05.761
  • Thirdly, realize that lust is insatiable and destructive.
  • 00:20:05.761 --> 00:20:12.868
  • It is insatiable and destructive.
  • 00:20:13.535 --> 00:20:16.672
  • Satan's lie from the very beginning
  • 00:20:16.672 --> 00:20:19.374
  • Was the one he whispered into eve's ear.
  • 00:20:19.374 --> 00:20:22.411
  • "do this.
  • 00:20:22.411 --> 00:20:23.945
  • Eat this forbidden fruit
  • 00:20:23.945 --> 00:20:25.714
  • And all of your dreams will come true.
  • 00:20:25.714 --> 00:20:29.217
  • You will be satisfied."
  • 00:20:29.217 --> 00:20:31.820
  • Listen to me, there is no amount of sin
  • 00:20:31.820 --> 00:20:35.857
  • That can satisfy an empty heart.
  • 00:20:35.857 --> 00:20:38.760
  • It's impossible.
  • 00:20:38.760 --> 00:20:40.629
  • Lust, the desire for that thing that is outside god's will,
  • 00:20:40.629 --> 00:20:44.566
  • It's insatiable and it's ultimately destructive.
  • 00:20:44.566 --> 00:20:49.805
  • I remember reading years ago
  • 00:20:50.405 --> 00:20:52.841
  • An account of how eskimos kill a wolf
  • 00:20:52.841 --> 00:20:57.546
  • That is terrorizing their little village.
  • 00:20:57.546 --> 00:21:00.716
  • And this is what the eskimo would do.
  • 00:21:00.716 --> 00:21:03.218
  • He would take a sharp, large knife
  • 00:21:03.218 --> 00:21:06.188
  • And he would cover the blade of that knife in animal blood.
  • 00:21:07.356 --> 00:21:12.027
  • He would wait till it froze,
  • 00:21:12.627 --> 00:21:14.129
  • And then he'd put a second layer of animal blood on there.
  • 00:21:14.129 --> 00:21:17.366
  • Wait till it froze a third, a fourth,
  • 00:21:17.366 --> 00:21:20.035
  • Until the blade was completely concealed.
  • 00:21:20.035 --> 00:21:22.904
  • And then he would take that knife
  • 00:21:22.904 --> 00:21:25.073
  • And place it upright in the frozen snow.
  • 00:21:25.073 --> 00:21:29.311
  • During the night,
  • 00:21:29.311 --> 00:21:30.879
  • A wolf attracted by the smell of the blood, would come
  • 00:21:30.879 --> 00:21:34.883
  • And he would begin to lick that blade
  • 00:21:35.684 --> 00:21:37.819
  • Not knowing there was a blade in the center of it.
  • 00:21:37.819 --> 00:21:40.789
  • And the more he tasted that blood,
  • 00:21:40.789 --> 00:21:43.625
  • The more ferociously he would lick that knife
  • 00:21:43.625 --> 00:21:46.628
  • Faster and faster and faster and faster.
  • 00:21:46.628 --> 00:21:50.999
  • He was so overcome with the desire for that blood
  • 00:21:50.999 --> 00:21:54.870
  • He didn't even notice the sharp sting of the blade,
  • 00:21:54.870 --> 00:21:59.374
  • Nor did it recognize when the blood it was consuming
  • 00:21:59.374 --> 00:22:02.878
  • Became the wolf's own blood.
  • 00:22:02.878 --> 00:22:05.914
  • Instead, he kept thirsting and thirsting and thirsting
  • 00:22:05.914 --> 00:22:09.985
  • Trying to satisfy himself with his own blood
  • 00:22:09.985 --> 00:22:12.954
  • Until ultimately he fell dead in the snow.
  • 00:22:12.954 --> 00:22:16.658
  • What a perfect picture
  • 00:22:17.159 --> 00:22:19.661
  • Of the insatiable and destructive way of lust.
  • 00:22:19.661 --> 00:22:24.633
  • Each person is tempted
  • 00:22:25.133 --> 00:22:28.503
  • When he is carried away and tempted by his own lust.
  • 00:22:28.503 --> 00:22:32.174
  • And when lust is conceived, it brings forth sin.
  • 00:22:32.174 --> 00:22:35.510
  • And when sin is accomplished,
  • 00:22:36.144 --> 00:22:38.713
  • It brings forth death.
  • 00:22:38.713 --> 00:22:42.017
  • Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.
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  • I'm hoping and praying that this vivid illustration
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  • Will motivate you
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  • To take your next steps toward a life of purity.
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  • You don't need to be caught in the deadly cycle
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  • Of sinning any longer.
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  • God wants to move the mountain of lust for you
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  • And bring you into the valley of purity and contentment.
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  • Nothing will prevent your conquering mountains
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  • Any more than doubt.
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  • We've got this secret fear
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  • That our doubts are bigger than god's answers.
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  • Don't worry about that.
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  • Make no mistake about it,
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  • Lust is impossible to satisfy
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  • And it's relentless.
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  • But just because lustful thoughts come into our minds,
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  • It doesn't mean we have to follow them.
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  • With god's help,
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  • We can move from lust to purity.
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  • You know, there are some people who overestimate angels
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  • And they think invisible means not real.
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  • You know, that's a tragic mistake
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  • To assume that something that is not visible
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  • To the naked eye is not real.
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